| | Welcome to the July issue of the ActiveState Dynamic Languages Newsletter! In this issue you'll find: - ActiveState Acquires Phenona, Perl Cloud Company
- Upcoming Webinar: Highlights of Perl 5.14
- Stackato Screencast: See our New Cloud Platform in Action
- ActivePerl 5.8 & 5.10: Extended Support Options
As always, please feel free to drop us a line if you have ideas for future issues or feedback. The ActiveState Team
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ActiveState Acquires Perl Cloud Company Phenona
We're pleased to announce that we've acquired Phenona, a Perl PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) cloud company based in Seattle, WA.
Phenona is the brain child of 15-year-old Daniil Kulchenko, who created Phenona when he couldn't find a Perl PaaS for the contract work he was doing. He thought that there should be an easy way to get Perl apps on the cloud, and we agree!
The Phenona technology, knowledge, and talent will extend our cloud strategy while helping us accelerate our development in the fast-paced cloud market. Phenona’s use of open source components, portability, security and multi-tenancy model all fit closely with our cloud strategy and we will leverage Phenona’s stack, which includes Perl modules, MySQL, Redis, and Mojolicious, into the ActiveState cloud product roadmap.
Those who had been beta testing Phenona will be invited to participate in the Developer Preview of Stackato, our enterprise cloud platform for Perl and Python. You too can apply to the Developer Preview of Stackato to get started getting your Perl and Python apps to the cloud.
As we have indicated - and to no surprise - the cloud market is moving really fast. We are super excited as to the depth and breadth of innovation that is happening across many different companies, and Phenona is a prime example.
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| | July Webinar - Highlights of Perl 5.14 (Continuing Evolution of Perl) Register today for our webinar to learn more about the Continuing Evolution of Perl, and Highlights of Perl 5.14. Hosted by Jan Dubois, Senior Perl Developer.
Perl 5.14 is here as promised. What impact will it have on your development plans for new applications and on the code you're already running? Should you be upgrading now? In this webinar for developers and system administrators, join us to learn: - What's new in Perl 5.14
- Community version support policies (Perl 5.14, 5.12, 5.10, 5.8)
- Refactoring or maintaining existing code
- The new web frameworks: Mojolicious and Dancer
- Running Perl applications in the cloud
Whether you're thinking of upgrading to 5.14 or need to maintain older Perl code, don't miss this webinar.
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| | Extended Support Options for
ActivePerl 5.6, 5.8, 5.10
With the release of Perl and ActivePerl 5.14, there are some changes that we think you'll want to know about.
We're bringing ActivePerl Community Edition in line with the maintenance and support policy of the perl5-porters. When the underlying Perl version becomes "unsupported" by the Perl community itself, support for and access to the corresponding ActivePerl versions becomes limited. But if you still need access to the older versions, ActivePerl 5.6, 5.8 and 5.10 are still available to Business Edition, Enterprise Edition and OEM customers. Not sure which version is best for you? Compare editions.
Last year we blogged about our rationale for removing older builds from Community Edition. We used an analogy about stale bread to illustrate the point, but someone on reddit summed it up much more succinctly: "The good stuff is free, the old broken stuff will cost you".
While there's nothing particularly broken about the latest releases of Perl 5.8 and 5.10, if something were broken or vulnerable, the perl5-porters won't be fixing it "officially".
Read more...
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|  | | | This month's Quick Poll should take no more than one minute to complete.
One respondent will receive a Komodo IDE license just for taking the time to participate! Take the quick poll now. Thanks to everyone who participated in June's quick poll. Congratulations to Thomas Pomphrey of Dragonfly Software who will receive his choice of Komodo IDE or Perl Dev Kit! We will be in touch to send you your new license!
.  PDK 9.1 with added support for ActivePerl 5.14
ActivePerl 5.14.1
ActiveState is proud to sponsor the following upcoming events: OSCON
Join us at our Stackato BOF!
July 25-29, Portland, OR
PyOhio
July 30-31, Columbus, OH
YAPC::EU
Aug 15-17, Riga, Latvia DrupalCon London
August 22-26, London, UK
Kiwi PyCon
August 27-28, Wellington, NZ
VMWorld USA
Aug 29-Sep 3, Las Vegas, NV Python Brasil [7]
Sept 29-Oct 1, São Paulo, Brasil PyCon DE
Oct 4-9, Leipzig, Germany PyCon Ireland
Oct 8-9, Dublin, Ireland
Cloud Computing Expo
Nov 7-10, Santa Clara, CA
Senior Developer Gisle Aas just returned from EuroPython in Florence, where he spoke about Python on the cloud. Read about the event and his experience in this blog post.
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